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Seven September – Live at Orange ’Ear – Sept. 7ᵗʰ 8pm sharp!
Seven September is an electro-acoustic project that explores a live conversation between the apres-Cristal Baschet instrument, cello, and electronics. Sasha and Aglaya are part of Playtronica Berlin station, where they invent various musical controllers and sequencers. Alina is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.
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Nadelør – Live at Orange ’Ear – August 24ᵗʰ
MARKVART . GORDOA – Live at Orange ’Ear – July 26ᵗʰ
On June 29ᵗʰ we had Mizuki Ishikawa as our guest.
Salon Bruit – Supersonic:
With anecdotes and musical examples, this special one-off interview offers a glimpse into the creative world of Jo and Frank, the duo behind the event series Orange ’Ear. It explores the ideas and approaches that make up the focus of the series.
The programme was broadcast on cola bora dio on June 24ᵗʰ – at 5pm – FM 88.4 MHz in Berlin, Streaming: fr-bb.org
Special thx to Seamus O’Donnell
for having us, he is such a lovely radio host. @knifeloop
On May 18ᵗʰ Caroline Cecilia Tallone played a duo with Andreas Voccia.
Caroline Cecilia Tallone // K Lì
@carolinececiliatallone
Electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy, amplified objects, composition
Born in Switzerland, she lives in Berlin and works as musician and luthier. Used to live in Cremona and Milano, collaborated and played all over Europe with several italian ensembles, orchestras and singersongwriters. With a background of classical, antique and folk music, she ́s now into experimental, electroacoustic and improvised music with her modified electroacoustic hurdy gurdy. She has played in many electronic impro noise festivals in Milan (I), Oslo (NO), Berlin, Leipzig and Munich (D), Zurich and Aarau (CH). She has participated in artistic residencies in Germany, Switzerland and Lithuania. She collaborates with many musicians and performers active in Berlin and international scene and is also involved in sound research for dance, live video projections and short films. She is working on research projects in the construction of classical and experimental musical instruments.
She has recorded several CDs.
Andreas Voccia
@andreasvoccia
electronic synthesis
Andreas Voccia lives and works as a musician in Berlin. Originally trained as a jazz guitarist, he now devotes himself primarily to the modular synthesizer in order to implement the compositional principles of contemporary classical music in an improvisational and interactive environment. In addition to his work as a solo artist, he is involved in several projects in the Berlin experimental and free jazz scene.
In his music he explores abstract concepts such as movement, pattern, space and time, as well as the way in which all these elements are interwoven through resonance processes. These explorations serve as his approach to fundamental questions about the nature of reality. Influenced by composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Gérard Grisey, Francisco Guerrero and Alberto Posadas, Andreas is constantly working on a musical aesthetic that depicts the complex phenomena of the natural sciences and makes them audible. It is particularly important to him to find a poetry in these processes that addresses the tension between the inner world and the outer world.
Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu, April 12ᵗʰ
Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu performs with cello, electronic processes, sound recording, and voice, moving between free improvisation and composition. Background is rooted in Istanbul: Turkish Makam music, Eurogenetic classical music, experimental, and sonic practices. Music switches between musical genres, creating through gestural and embodied movements of textural acoustic and electroacoustic sounds.
Aside from performing-composing practices, interested in the social dynamics of musical acts as a creative, interpretative way of synchronization, exploring ‚oneness with others‘ and fostering small-scale supportive communities. Holds a PhD from Istanbul ITU MIAM on improvisational playful thinking as a tool for supporting creative communities. Lives and works in Berlin since 2023.
Cate Hops, March 16ᵗʰ 2025
With a scientific background in visual and media anthropology, her ideas revolve around the concept of space as a social practice.
Musically, as a dj, performer and curator she shifts between scenes and genres coming with a background in roots and dub, over UK bass related sounds and tekno, to more experimental forms of contemporary electronic and electro-acoustic music. As a performer she is working on her own live noise improvisations and has co-founded the Fem*noise network.
With the ongoing project „Sound System Culture: On the Radical Roots of Rave“, she initiates events in which the audience the audience is actively involved. In her radio show, she invites guests from her network to discuss with her and play their favorite tracks. As a scientist, Eugenia Seriakov also gives lectures, e.g. at the ICTM conference in Lisbon, the Unsafe+Sounds Festival in Vienna, the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Art University Linz. She is currently a PhD candidate at the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Sound System Epistemologies: Knowledge Engendered Through Practice”
dr. nexus
noise, sound art, voice art, experimental.
@the.dr.nexus | facebook.com/doctor.nexus
Additional Camera: Lilu Herlambang, Dirty-Cam: Jo
Thx a bunch to the best place for the shooting location.
Elena Kakaliagou in a duo with Hannes Teichmann on February 22nd
Elena Kakaliagou has developed her own language on the horn: lyrical and melancholic, angry like a stormy sea or calm as a breeze. Kakaliagou gives acoustic and amplified concerts, with or without vocals. The studied horn player offers a new approach to her instrument – melodic, microtonal, quiet, singing and always open to spontaneity. @elena_kakaliagou
For Hannes Teichmann, music is a playground. He is a electronic live musician, DJ and initiator of various music-related projects and situations. Rooted in the Berlin and Regensburg underground scene and DIY culture of the 90s, he is driven by a lively curiosity and love for music, sound and its social relationships.
Peter Strickmann. Jan. 19ᵗʰ 2025
Peter Strickmann
is a Berlin based soundartrist and performer. Through the use of radically simple and sparse
means, he aims to reveal and rewire the multiple listening habits that evolve from daily routine
and sudden surprise. While observing and animating the vibrant „thing“ and its social,
acoustic and theatrical feedback he enables shared listening environments in exhibitions
and performances. He studied Audiovisual Art with Christina Kubisch at HBK Saarbrücken,
runs an ever growing Schnarcharchiv (snoring archive) and performs solo and collectively
with his various selfbuilt wind- and percussion-instruments. He appeared on festivals like
audiograft (UK), Seanaps (D), Delta Wave (BE), blurred edges (D), The Listening Biennial
(intl.), Musikfestival Bern (CH) and published his solo and group-sounds on labels like Ana
Ott, 901 Editions, Rayon, meudiademorte, Stenze Quo, econore, SPAM and Dazy&Holy.
Link to videos:
performance at KM28 Berlin
video-performance for audiograft UK
Daniel Craig and Matto Zoppi. Dec. 7ᵗʰ 2024
Daniel Craig @daniel.thomas.craig
Matto Zoppi @m_zoop
Matto and Daniel have been making music together just long enough to pass through the four seasons.
Across this time, they have worked to create a highly interactive and elastic musical language.
And indeed it is these seasons that they hope to traverse in their performance.
Is it neo-romanticism for our age of entanglement?
Or do their concrete sounds and voice simply suggest the inconcrete and intangible?
Daniel Craig – laptop, Matto Zoppi – voice, death whistle
Mathieu Sylvestre – Nov. 23ʳᵈ 2024
Field Recordings and analog synthesizers are the main sources of the sound processed by Mathieu
Sylvestre. Noises and natural sounds are interwoven and articulated in electrified sound narratives between aural synaesthesia and spatial vibrations. Autodidact musician based in Berlin, Germany since 2010, he came from France to Noise Music after 10 years as vocalist and guitarist in rock music field. With guitars, cello, effect pedals and contact microphones, he first experimented on sounds and noises to work on origin of vibrations by straight analog means. After guitar noise experiments he developed sound pieces from field recordings and Moog analog synthesizers sound sources. After hundreds of shows since 2010 in Europe and worldwide this work is constantly enriched by different contexts and places. Mathieu Sylvestre performed in several performance festivals and art events, in art galleries as music performer or as performance artist. The live electronic sound performances based on improvised patterns have been evolving show after show and highlight boundaries between analog sound textures and the core of electronic vibrations that focuses on bringing noise music a plastic and physical approach. On the other hand, Mathieu Sylvestre composed sound tracks for visual artists as Wolfgang Petrick (D) or Saskia Edens (CH) and work to provide sound design on live shows in collaboration with Performance artists Frédéric Krauke (D), NoMass -contemporary dance- (GR), Physical Poets -Butoh- (JP), Non Grata (Est) Diverse Universe Tours from 2012 to 2019 and music/sound design of the movie Symbiosis (2024) He was assistant of visual artist Till Velten between 2015 and 2019 in Basel (CH) Several collaborating side projects are on the track since 2018 with Sonus Eorum (Drone/Noise) Reichenhall (Ambient Noise) and UncoppenSaw (Spoken world Tribal Noise)
And as claimed the Beat Poet Ron Whitehead : „Listen listen listen to the droning mesmerizing exploding noise of Mathieu Sylvestre as he creates and performs the soundtrack for the performance art underworld .“
Music : mathieusylvestre.bandcamp.com
Stephen Flinn, Jung-Jae Kim, and Sylvain Monchoce, Nov. 1st 2024
Stephen Flinn, Jung-Jae Kim, and Sylvain Monchoce create a spatial fullness of acoustic resonance with small, delicate, and exquisite sound sources. Their music walks cautiously deep into silence, meditative waves, and tranquil moments. The three musicians interact with each other, with the space and the instant, with the energy of amplitude and sketch the soundscape of a minuscule universe.
VINYL -TERROR & -HORROR Live at Orange ’Ear, Oct. 11ᵗʰ 2024
Orange ‘Ear is back from the summer break and started the new season with a very special concert!
Adrián de Alfonso, Sept. 20ᵗʰ 2024
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Eric Wong and Carina Khorkhordina, June 8ᵗʰ 2024
we were pleased to host the concert with Eric Wong featuring spatialized bluetooth speakers and the site-specific trumpet player Carina Khorkhordina.
The duo contrast their ways of using the space to shape the sound they make. Carina Khorkhordina incorporates her movements with the sound she produces and utilizes the acoustics of different corners of the space for her sonic palette. Eric Wong diffuses his sound through a collection of Bluetooth speakers that are placed among the audience.
mixed by Eric Wong
additional mastering by Axel Dörner & Carina Khorkhordina
FULL SIXTY CIRCLES May 25ᵗʰ 2024
Frank completed his 60th orbit around the sun. In this full swing, he was ready for his stage debut. To mark the occasion, we celebrated a very special evening of improvised music at Orange ’Ear.
FRANK:
Last autumn Frank started to develop his set-up for improvised music. Starting with the old familiar guitar, he quickly added a no-input mixer. To dive even deeper into noise music he started to shape the sounds digitally. A multitude of analogue sound samples expanded the spectrum and opened up a wide range of options for his hints of melodies, sporadic rhythms and sonic structures. After some private sessions with the „Päfgens“, „Dizzy Moon“, „beltership“ and Marina Cyrino / Matthias Koole (ICNISP) it was now time to go on stage.
ICNISP:
Institute for Certified Nomadic Illicit Sonic Practices is the Berlin-based duo of Brazilian musicians Marina Cyrino (flute) and Matthias Koole (el. guitar), formed in 2018. With a mixture of electronic and acoustic sound sources, objects and preparations, internal amplification and no-input mixing, the duo presents a lively and highly imaginative approach to their instruments. The amplified piccolo can function as a noise generator and a percussion instrument; the alto flute can be played by an external balloon that moans; the guitar quickly switches between sound worlds in chaotic mutations of instrumental techniques and no-input mixing. The duo works across improvisation and multidisciplinary projects. In 2023 they released their first album Calisthenics on the Brazilian label Seminal Records.
JD ZAZIE:
JD Zazie is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator.
Coming from a DJ and a radiophonic background JD Zazie has explored different approaches to real-time manipulation of fixed recorded sound. In her work she redefines DJ and electroacoustic activities. As a solo performer, in small groups, and in large ensembles, she works in an area which is constantly stretching the borders of what could be defined as DJ mixing, free improvisation and composed music.
In the final session, all the musicians played together.
Augustė Vickunaitė – May 11ᵗʰ 2024
DuChamp – April 27ᵗʰ 2024
Set One
Set Two
(Drone – Germany/Italy)
She released albums for Boring Machines (“Nar”), Idiosyncratics (“Sculpture”), Full Body Massage (“A Blazing World”).
Since 2017, aside baritone guitar and keys, DuChamp incorporate real field recordings in her music, related to her personal memory, into her drone compositions, by adding layers of sounds and noise in attempt to recreate some kind of apophonias.
Antti Virtaranta – April 19ᵗʰ 2024
Antti Virtaranta presents his new solo bass project Live at Orange ’Ear.
Antti’s music is a quest of colors and gracefully appearing textures within a marathon of fierce, dense repeating swells of sound. His exploration is focused on minimalism and microscopic details, but turned up (volume-wise [acoustically ]).
The textures, which range from beautiful floating harmonies to harsh beating and scratching noises, are full of subtle details that are tangled and manipulated into some construct of composition.
Omen – March 23ʳᵈ 2024
The sounds of Omen wave you into her psyche, her fiction and obsession, her gloomy realm of sound in space. Omen is the solo project of Berlin based artist Hannah Schiefelbein. Her latest album entitled Wild Sleep was released on cassette by local label Kashual Plastik and touches base in manifold stylistic subdivisions – drone zones, dragging industrial, pop miniatures and field recordings.
For this performance at Orange Ear Omen’s minimal electronic hardware set up — a soap bar sized synth, cassette deck and effect pedals, is accompanied by live vocals and a visual concept conceived in collaboration with artist Jill Kiddon.
Congee Rats Live at Orange ’Ear, Feb. 24ᵗʰ 2024
Congee Rats is a project of Dong Zhou’s, which explores all genres of electronic pop music and reflects the life situation of marginalised people.
Congee Rats, aka Dong Zhou, is a composer-performer based in Hamburg. In 2023, Dong Zhou started this solo project as a performing producer. Fanfiction is a collaboration with Daria Geske, which brought life to four songs in today’s set. The other songs were Zhou’s sound diary during the last Christmas holiday.
Andreas Voccia Live at Orange ’Ear, Jan. 27ᵗʰ 2024
Andreas Voccia is a musician and video artist based in Berlin. Originally a trained jazz guitar player, he now works with a modular synthesizer to implement compositional practices from contemporary classical music in an improvisational and responsive environment. Besides his solo work, he is currently involved in several projects with musicians from the experimental and free jazz scenes.
In his music he looks into abstract principles like movement, pattern, space, time, and how everything is interwoven with each other through resonance processes, in order to approach the fundamental question of the nature/essence of Reality. His main interest is to find in all the complex systems a poetic view which aims to draw out the tension betweeen the inside and the outside.
Tintin Patrone Live at Orange ’Ear, Jan. 6ᵗʰ 2024
